Celebration Day: Final Led Zeppelin Reissues Arrive TOMORROW, July 31!

REMINDER! Tomorrow, July 31, marks one month of Friday release days, and it’s perhaps the most momentous yet – because tomorrow is when Led Zeppelin will conclude its much-heralded deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda.

As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio programs featuring previously unreleased music selected and compiled by Page.

Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda will each be available July 31 from Atlantic/Swan Song in the following formats:

Single CD – Remastered original album. Presence and Coda will be packaged in a
gatefold card wallet. All CD and LP versions of In Through The Out Door will be
wrapped in a brown paper page replicating its initial release.

Single LP – Remastered album on 180-gram vinyl, packaged in a sleeve that replicates
the LP’s first pressing in exacting detail. All vinyl versions of In Through The Out Door
will also include the water-sensitive insert that replicates the inner sleeve from the
album’s initial release.

Digital Download – Remastered album and companion audio will both be available.

Super Deluxe Box Set – This collection includes:
o Remastered album on CD in vinyl replica sleeve.
o Companion audio on CD in card wallet.
o Remastered album on 180-gram vinyl in a sleeve replicating first pressing.
o Companion audio on 180-gram vinyl.
o Hi-def audio download card of all content at 96kHz/24 bit.
o Hardbound, 72+ page book filled with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia.
o High quality print of the original album cover, the first 30,000 of which will be individually numbered.

1976’s Presence, recorded over 18 days in Munich, Germany, peaked at No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. The triple-platinum LP is joined by a companion audio disc with five previously unreleased, work-in-progress reference mixes including the instrumental track “10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod).”

In Through the Out Door didn’t arrive until 1979. It, too, topped the charts in both the U.S. and U.K., and has since been certified six-times platinum. The final album recorded before drummer John Bonham’s passing in 1980, it’s joined by a companion disc featuring an unreleased rough mix of every track from the original album, including early takes with working titles such as “The Hook” (“All My Love”), “The Epic” (“Carouselambra”), and “Blot” (“I’m Gonna Crawl”).

Coda was Led Zeppelin’s studio swan song. Released in 1982, it premiered eight previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1970 and 1978. This platinum-selling U.S. Top 10 release will, in the spirit of the original, be joined by a host of never-before-heard recordings on two companion audio discs. The 15 additional tracks were recorded between 1968 and 1974, including “Sugar Mama” and “Baby Come On Home” from 1968’s debut album sessions and “St. Tristan’s Sword” from the 1970 Led Zeppelin III sessions. Much more is promised, too. Direct from the press release: “In 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page took a fabled trip to India to perform with the Bombay Orchestra and now, for the first time, recordings from these sessions will be officially released with dynamic takes on ‘Friends’ and ‘Four Hands’ (‘Four Sticks’ from Led Zeppelin IV). Among the many other highlights featured here is an early version of ‘When The Levee Breaks’ from 1970 titled ‘If It Keeps On Raining’; rough mixes of ‘The Wanton Song’ and ‘In The Light,’ from the Physical Graffiti sessions at Headley Grange, the latter a different alternate version than the one included in the Physical Graffiti deluxe edition; and an instrumental mix of ‘Poor Tom’ from 1970.”

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Peggy Lipton, Doris Day, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders.
In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and his work still appears with frequency in the magazine. In 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.
Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as The Supremes, Melissa Manchester, Laura Nyro, Bobby Darin and Johnny Mathis, legendary producer Bob Crewe, soul legend Wilson Pickett, and many others.
Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

Comments

It’s really too bad Page did not make the LP reissues all analog (as Classic Records did with the LZ catalog a few years ago – sadly those are out of print). To me vinyl sourced from analog tapes and mastered digitally is simply burning the CDs onto vinyl…But I will want the new “Coda” , which has the only really essential bonus material in this series.

The highlight of the “Little Games” album is Page’s solo acoustic showcase, “White Summer.” With its Eastern tuning and dazzling fretwork, this tune has long been regarded as one of his finest performances. And rightly so. Curiously, the song is credited to Jimmy Page. However, it is a traditional English folk song called “She Moves Through The Fair.” Many British artists had previously covered the song, including Davey Graham. Graham, along with English folk guitarist Bert Jansch, was one of Page’s major acoustic influences. Coincidence? The song should be listed as “traditional; arrangment by Graham/Page,” but it is credited to the Yardbird guitarist alone.

Both albums (Truth and Led Zeppelin I) also contained a traditional English folk song. Beck’s LP had a lovely acoustic arrangement of “Greensleeves.” He didn’t take any credit for the song. Page, on the other hand, showcased his companion piece to “White Summer.” The song was called “Black Mountainside.” It is credited solely to Page, yet humorously enough it is a centuries old tune. He probably picked it up from Bert Jansch, who is one of Page’s primary acoustic influences. Further, Jansch had been playing the song for years, using its original title “Black Waterside.” He never took credit for the song. Jimmy Page, however, boldly stamped his name on the tune. As a side note, Davey Graham probably devised the D-A-D-G-A-D tuning used on “Black Waterside” and on “White Summer.” Annie Briggs, another influence on Page, was also known to do a version of “Black Waterside.”

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